08-31-2013, 10:48 PM
There was a time when those cars went for peanuts, because they weren't, and still aren't, very good cars. (There's a ratty $4k Interceptor that's been bouncing around the Bay Area for at least a decade.)
I've driven a few of this breed, a couple of Interceptors, a Grifo, a Mangusta... I would _always_ prefer the Dino. It's a _sports_ car. The rest can be considered attempts at Grand Touring; attempts because one can always jam some piece of crude Detroit iron into a pretty body and charge a lot of money. It's cheap and easy.
Now, one could get creative... chop two cylinders off a Maserati V8, stick it in backwards and behind the transmission in the FWD Citroen SM, and then move the whole concept buttwards in the Maserati Merak.
I've driven the Merak, and owned the SM. Great fun. But the Dino is still better.
Eustace
I've driven a few of this breed, a couple of Interceptors, a Grifo, a Mangusta... I would _always_ prefer the Dino. It's a _sports_ car. The rest can be considered attempts at Grand Touring; attempts because one can always jam some piece of crude Detroit iron into a pretty body and charge a lot of money. It's cheap and easy.
Now, one could get creative... chop two cylinders off a Maserati V8, stick it in backwards and behind the transmission in the FWD Citroen SM, and then move the whole concept buttwards in the Maserati Merak.
I've driven the Merak, and owned the SM. Great fun. But the Dino is still better.
Eustace